Conversations with the Devi
She ruffles my hair and very gently starts to rub the eraser over a few imaginary lines of my body and mind. You can call it a caricature or a self-portrait of sorts, which for some reason, I always believed, contained me.
These are nothing but some imaginary lines of separation that I may have harboured all this while.
One by one many lines start to blur and disappear…
The first to merge are the ‘Mridangam’ and the ‘Nadaswarams’.
Then the chants of the ‘pundits’ melt with the super-charged ‘yagna’ air.
Then, the sea of people sitting in front of me with their eyes closed become one single entity.
Then goes the imaginary line separating me from everyone else around.
Followed by the thin line between matter and energy.
Between the gross and the subtle.
Between the body and the soul.
Between humanity and divinity.
Slowly everything dissolves into one ethereal bundle of bliss throbbing slowly with one, single heartbeat.
I see myself looking around once again… and hear a thought echo in some fluid, far away corner of myself.
“Did the heavens just merge with the earth?”, I think…
- Montoo Bassi
(Come and experience the bliss of Navaratri in Bangalore Ashram!!)
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it is really difficult to express the feelings during the Homas. But you have really nailed it. absolutely loved it.
Thanks Reema
Hey Montoo,
Thank you for sharing your “divine” observations. This piece of writing reads like a beautiful poem!
I recently read a quote by Guruji that says:
“When a flower hits you, it wakes you up but you don’t feel a pinch. Beauty is such an awakening. Beauty shakes you somewhere so deep inside that you cannot be in sleep.”
The beauty in your thoughts reminded me of this quote.
Sincerely,
A. Rose.
Yes, you are right. It was supposed to be a poem. Thanks.
How true! The reality was too concrete this time to be missed by anyone.
What a step by step description of dissolution !!! seems like a guided meditation !
Ya, I went to the dictionary to check and the right word for this description is ‘surreal’.
Oooooooh Nakul!!!:)
Let SHE erase more and more of those imaginary lines from every levels of our existence and make us pure and pure..
Tathastu!!